Vikas Yadav sent to judicialcustody in Jessica murder case

A New Delhi court Thursday sent former Rajya Sabha member D P Yadav's son Vikas Yadav, an accused in the ramp model Jessica Lal murder case, to judicial custody, following expiry of the period of his interim bail.

Vikas is facing trial for alleged destruction of evidence
in the case, in which former Union minister Vinod Sharma's son
Manu Sharma is accused of killing the model in a south Delhi restaurant on the night of April 30, 1999.

Additional Sessions Judge H R Malhotra sent Vikas to
judicial custody after the prosecution moved an application before
him saying the interim bail granted to the accused by a
sessions court in September 1999 had expired and he did not
seek any fresh bail from the court.

In September 1999, a sessions court had granted him
interim bail with the direction that the accused had to
surrender before the trial court a week before beginning of the
trial and seek fresh bail.

In fact, Vikas had filed an application before Additional
Sessions Judge S M Chopra, from whose court the case was
transferred to that of Malhotra, for confirmation of the
earlier bail order a week before recording of evidence was
scheduled to begin, but that application had not been decided.

The court, while ordering to hear on Friday the bail
application, which has been pending, agreed with prosecutor S
K Saxena's contention that the accused should be taken into
custody.